Posted in Music: Jazz on Blogfinger, Photography by Bob Bowne, tagged Gone with the wind at the Jersey Shore on June 28, 2021| Leave a Comment »
By Bob Bowné. September, 2014. © Special to Blogfinger.
Paul,
….ahhhhh….the tourists are finally gone!!!!!! 🙂
Bob.
DICK HYMAN (piano) and Ken Peplowski (tenor sax) “Gone with the Wind.” Live at the Kitano, a fine New York restaurant with a jazz club. Currently closed due to COVID.
Posted in Photography by Bob Bowne, tagged Commercial fishing boat photo by Bob Bowné on June 4, 2021| 1 Comment »
Point Pleasant Marina. By Bob Bowné. Special to Blogfinger © Click lto enlarge.
LEON REDBONE: “Nobody Cares if I’m Blue” from his album Red to Blue
Posted in Music from the Broadway stage., Photography by Bob Bowne, tagged Car wash by Bob Bowné, Music from South Pacific on April 15, 2021| 3 Comments »
“Wash the Car Wash.” By Bob Bowné September, 2014. © Special to Blogfinger. Click to make the train bigger.
ELLA FITZGERALD. From South Pacific:
Posted in Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photography by Bob Bowne, tagged Winter Moon in Ocean Grove on February 6, 2021| 4 Comments »
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photography at The Jersey Shore, Photography by Bob Bowne, tagged Spring Lake downtown on November 7, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Spring Lake boardwalk . Bob Bowné took a right turn and wound up in Spring Lake. Nov. 21, 2015.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net
Spring Lake is an exquisitely beautiful and classy town. There is no comparison to be made with Ocean Grove, but we can perhaps profit from seeing why they are so highly regarded.
For one thing, their governance is all about the residents. There is an active business district, but it is a residential community. The stores attract some tourism, but very little.
The shops are great. They even have April Cornell which was driven out of the Grove by a developer (Sackman) who had no interest in the nature of our town, and no one in the Grove fought for them. Spring Lake eagerly offered that beautiful shop a home.
S.L. does not have a single mega-event to force its people indoors to hide.
Parking is not a problem—ever. And they have found a simple measure to help their downtown: see the sign below—no meters.
3rd Avenue, downtown Spring Lake. Blogfinger.net photo. Nov. 7, 2020. 3 hour parking and then move….
They don’t lock their parks in Spring Lake. It is a welcoming place. In the center of downtown is a lovely park where kids, moms, dogs and others like to meet and greet. Look Ma—-no locks! Blogfinger.net photo 11/7/20.
This is OG’s Fireman’s Park. It is a disgusting disgrace! The barriers should be removed and the lock discarded. “Liberate Our Park!” Blogfinger photo. 11/7/20.
In S.L they love to have art around town. It celebrates beauty and lifts one’s spirits. They have a juried art show every spring. In recent years S.L. has exhibited Seward Johnson’s life-like citizens down town. Blogfinger.net. 11/7/20
Here’s a link to our coverage of the Seward Johnson exhibit there in 2016.
Seward Johnson in Spring Lake by BF
Here’s a song dedicated to those entrenched Grover big shots and little shots who insist on locking Firemen’s Park:
“…..we talked about some old times
And we drank ourselves some beers
Still crazy after all these years
Still crazy after all these years.”
PAUL SIMON “Still Crazy After All These Years.”
Posted in Photography by Bob Bowne, tagged Johnstown Pa. on September 27, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Johnstown, Pennsylvania. June, 2014. By Bob Bowné ©
From Bob Bowné to Blogfinger: “I attached a photo I shot in Johnstown PA this weekend….ah…the industrial villages in the US are beat up.”
MAUDE MAGGART. Irving Berlin wrote this song “You Keep Coming Back Like a Song” from the 1946 movie Blue Skies, where it was introduced by Bing Crosby.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photograph by Bob Bowné, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photographs presented on Blogfinger, Photography at The Jersey Shore, Photography by Bob Bowne, Poems by Charles Pierre, Poetry on Blogfinger, tagged A poem by Charles Pierre on Blogfinger, Dawn by Charles Pierre on September 1, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Beachfront Sunrise. By Paul Goldfinger. Ocean Grove. Blogfinger.net ©
Hi Paul:
Greetings from Manhattan. I was struck by your quietly beautiful photo, “Beachfront Sunrise,” (posted recently on Blogfinger), and your statement that you preferred sunrises to sunsets because “beginnings are happier than endings.”
Here is the poem, “Dawn,” from my 2008 collection, Father of Water.
Best wishes,
Charles Pierre
Dawn
By Charles Pierre
The first hint of morning on the ocean
is a trembling of shadows,
a dark hovering of muted tones
that moves with imperceptible pace,
a vanishing medium through which
the day brightens and widens,
the new light going on for miles and miles
in the shine of emerging surf.
BILL FRISELL. “Across the Universe.”
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove photographs, Photography by Bob Bowne, tagged Bob Bowne Photo, Ocean Grove photograph, Snowball fight in Ocean Grove after light snow yesterday on February 4, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Ocean Grove. January 25, 2014. By Bob Bowné. Special to Blogfinger ©. Click to enlarge.
CHIC:
Posted in Photographic Gallery, Color, Photography by Bob Bowne, tagged Elsie Bianchi, Van Sant airfield on January 12, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Van Sant airfield in Bucks County. Photo Bob Bowne. October, 2014 © Click on image. Re-post from 2014. Special to Blogfinger.net.
Paul,
Took a little ride yesterday on my motorcycle to the Van Sant Airport…. or…maybe I just got in the time machine again and pushed the back button! These guys were having a blast!
Bob
ELSIE BIANCHI: (Flying to the moon with a bass player and in 3/4 time)
Posted in Blogfinger Jazz Corner, Photography by Bob Bowne, tagged America the beautiful on Blogfinger in Ocean Grove, Bob Bowné on August 18, 2019| 10 Comments »
This is the Aurora in Ocean Grove in 2014. It is a former hotel, and later a single family (albeit a big one) home, and now on its way to becoming 4 condos.
Many have photographed this scene, but no one produces a unique image like Bob Bowné. Bob, a professional fine art photographer, is a regular contributor to Blogfinger. Re-post from July 4, 2014.
The Aurora by Bob Bowné of Ocean Grove. © Special to Blogfinger. 2014.
RUBY BRAFF (trumpet) AND DICK HYMAN (organ.) From their album America the Beautiful.
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